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Correspondence with Biggleswade Senior Girls School, including much day-to-day material such as injuries to pupils, ordering of supplies, maintenance and replacement of equipment, staffing, conveyance of children to school, holidays etc. as well as the following topics/issues/events:

1937 - 1939

From: 1937 To: 1939

- headmistress’ concern that she should not be seen to be evading teaching responsibilities [1937]; - publicity leaflet for concert starring Clara Serena (“the distinguished Australian dramatic contralto”) and the Ross-Boughton Singers, conducted by the school’s headmistress, at St.George’s Hall, Biggleswade [1937]; - letter from headmistress regarding the above mentioned concert including the phrase: “I am trying to make people in this district music-conscious” [1937]; - viewing of a film on National Savings at the Regal or Empire Cinema, Biggleswade [1937]; - desire to have tennis courts at the school [1937]; - return giving numbers of meetings, numbers of attendances, average attendance, average number on registers, details of practical instruction, pupil numbers on register on last day on which the Department was open before 1 Apr 1937, numbers of pupils leaving and amount of milk dispensed [1937]; - intended changes to convert Science Course into Rural Science Course at the school [1937]; - teaching of laundrywork at school as part of Domestic Subjects curriculum [1937]; - desire to employ a gramophone in teaching [refused by LEA] [1937]; - timetable of Biggleswade Evening Institute and correspondence surrounding its activities following the headmistress’ assumption of responsibilities for running it [1937-1938]; - Local Education Authority regulations for evening institutes and classes [1937]; - results of Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and Union of Educational Institutions (UEI) examinations [1938] [ex EV96]

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Serena, Clara,
Ross-Boughton Singers

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